Contents Vision & Mission 2 From The Trustee’s Desk 4 From The Director’s Desk 5 Advisory Committee 6 The Way We Work 10 Our Powerhouse 11 Meet Our Valuable Partners 12 More Than Just To Flatten The Curve 14 Awards & Applauds 19 Events & Highlights 21 Accreditations & Affiliations 25 Stories of Strength 28 Public Health & Clinical Services 31 Education 38 Disability & Special Needs 41 Skills Building & Livelihood 44 Nutrition Intervention & Impact 50 Research & Development 53 Financial Data 54 Atlas of Strength: Tales of Resilience & Grit 55 Our Presence 59 1 D EEPAK F OUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT l 2019-2020 1 OUR VISION Empowering underprivileged and unreached communities to ensure holistic development, economic stability and a life of dignity. O UR MISSION Creating a socially inclusive and sustainable environment among the underprivileged and unreached communities by providing health care, education, capacity building, and livelihood opportunities. We envisage a world free of distress, disease, deprivation, exploitation and subjugation, ensuring the overall well-being of the family, society and community. 2 D EEPAK F OUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT l 2019-2020 3 From The Trustee’s desk Over the years, the Foundation has evolved as a leading organization in undertaking outcome driven, evidence-based developmental activities aligned with sustainable development goals. Forging long term partnerships with various government departments, corporates and international organizations has helped in bringing about measurable changes in the lives of the poorest communities through our interventions in public health and nutrition, livelihood, education and disability. Our initiatives have evolved as we remain responsive to the ever-changing needs of society and critically investigate the true impact of our work. Deepak Foundation’s steadfast endeavour has created various replicable and scalable models based on proven solutions, many of which have been adopted by the government and our peers. We are thrilled at what has been achieved over the past few decades and look forward to growing our reach with even more rigour. Today, when we are amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, our partnerships have helped the Foundation in providing relief services during the lockdown period to those who were stranded, in transit, and who lost their sources of livelihood in remote rural and tribal areas. I take this opportunity to congratulate the team members who continued to provide critical preventive and curative health care services, relief work, and facilitated households with income generating activities. What they did, required personal sacrifices and fighting social pressure and norms. I am sure the team will be able to overcome the challenges during the forthcoming financial year and continue its endeavors of reaching out to the beneficiaries in a mission mode. The new decade is beginning at a time of tremendous unrest and uncertainty around the world. But even in a moment as challenging as this, we remain committed to supporting those affected by the pandemic, our frontline workers, and the government who are making it possible for more people in more places to live a healthy and productive life with security and dignity. शतहसत समाहर सहस्रहसत संकिर । (Earn with hundred hands and donate with thousand) Deepak C. Mehta 4 D EEPAK F OUNDATION From The Director’s desk I am happy to present the 2019–2020 Annual Report to share the achievements and challenges during the financial year. As we turn around to review our performance, we scored reasonably well in achieving the momentum of growth of the Foundation as planned in the beginning of the year. Though the year began with confidence to achieve set milestones, the closing quarter of the year 2019-2020 appeared challenging. The fulcrum tilted much more towards optimizing our financial resources to ensure the last mile reach of services and dedicated commitment made to our donors. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all our partner organizations for their immense trust and faith on us and that we are committed to the deliverables despite all odds. Overcoming the initial bewilderment of work-from-home regime, the hospital team and those engaged in delivery of primary health care services through mobile health units geared themselves to continue providing services following necessary standard operating procedures during the lockdown period. As donation poured for relief work, our outreach staff coordinated to provide cooked food and dry rations to those stranded and needing help. Training women SHG members to make masks and facilitating sales, skilling youth in sanitization, awareness on prevention of the spread of disease in the hinterland were other activities in Gujarat, Jharkhand, Maharashtra and Telangana. As schools remained closed with the outbreak of the disease, children from under-resourced and marginalised communities and those with special needs were the most affected. These children were provided with online learning opportunities to keep pace with their emotional well-being with support from the education and social welfare verticals. The team with the domain expertize on disaster management and relief is back with confidence to overcome the crisis situation. I would like to thank our supporters, beneficiaries, team members for their efforts to weather the crisis situation. Kudos to the team who worked tirelessly during the crisis situation! A telesurvey among 4,500 project beneficiaries not only assisted in planning relief work but also in strategizing need based intervention program for the year 2020-2021. At Deepak Foundation, women and children remain our prime focus, cutting across all sector expertise. Our vision is to build an inclusive society by pioneering a holistic integrated model to address our country’s multifaceted development challenges and contribute to its collective aspirations. Central to our philosophy is the commitment to enhance the quality of life of people from marginalised and vulnerable communities, by empowering them and catalysing change through innovative and sustainable solutions. Archana Joshi ANNUAL REPORT l 2019-2020 5 Advisory Committee Shri C. K. Mehta, Founder Shri C. K. Mehta’s name is synonymous with successful business, a first- generation entrepreneur and a philanthropist who founded the Deepak Group of Industries. As a founder of Deepak Foundation in 1982, his farsightedness to pursue empathy towards needy and underprivileged communities led to four decades of Foundation’s engagement in development sector. Shri D. C. Mehta, Trustee Shri D. C. Mehta’s business acumen and leadership skills have enabled Deepak Foundation to take swift strides forward with operational efficiencies. He plays a pivotal role in guiding Deepak Foundation towards becoming one of the leading civil society organizations in the country. Dr P. N. Khandwalla Dr P. N. Khandwalla served as the Director of IIM-A until 1996. His research and teaching contributions in organizational theory, design, and restructuring of organizations for management excellence, effective management of public enterprises and governmental organizations, creativity and innovation has been of paramount importance in designing the Foundation’s organizational framework. He is also on the advisory council of Aspire Circle. Shri S.R. Wadhwa As Tax Management Consultant and Advocate, Shri S.R. Wadhwa is the former Chief Commissioner of Income-tax and Chairman, Income Tax Settlement Commission. He plays a pivotal role in guiding the Foundation towards financial management and achieving its overall goal of sustainable growth in the sectors of public health, skill building, livelihood generation, children with special needs, and education. 6 D EEPAK F OUNDATION Shri A. M. Tiwari, I.A.S. Retired as Additional Chief Secretary, Home Department, Govt. of Gujarat, Shri A. M. Tiwari had diverse set of responsibilities in the Government of Gujarat. He held important positions such as Principal Secretary in Education, Social Justice & Empowerment, Tribal Development as well as Managing Director of Corporations like GACL, GSFC and GNFC etc. Shri Tiwari also has immense interest in development sector. He is guiding the Foundation with his technical expertise in the field of livelihood. He is guiding the Foundation in strategising the implementation activities of the Foundation. Dr Dileep Mavalankar Dr Dileep Mavlankar is the Director of Indian Institute of Public Health, Gandhinagar since 2012. His work experience includes faculty and research positions at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, USA, Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad and Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, NY, USA. He has worked as consultant to many organizations, including Columbia University, WHO (Geneva, Western Pacific Regional Office), UNICEF (New Delhi), UNDP/World Bank (India) etc. He is an advisor to Deepak Foundation on its research and development activities since 2005. Dr N. C. Patel Former Vice Chancellor, Anand Agricultural University (AAU) Dr N. C. Patel holds Ph.D. degree in Agricultural Engineering with specialization in Crop Process Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1993. Recipient of many prestigious awards, he has been the Director of key State Government Corporations. He is guiding the Foundation with his technical expertise in the development of agro-processing equipment and technologies and livelihood initiatives. Prof. Hitesh Bhatt Serving as Director, Institute of Rural